If I were a full time exploration player I would be absolutely losing my mind right now. An entire year goes by and you guys get diddle and squat. It doesn't matter what the focus of the update it. In this case multi crew. Each update should bring a little something for everyone. A new ship is great for everyone. You can fly it yourself or just murder anyone else doing so. You can't really go wrong adding a new ship. They were hyping up unshown features on the stream so it either means they are going to blow our minds with Comets or something. Or whatever they had up their sleeve simply wasn't impressive enough to show on stream. I hope I am horribly wrong but it seems more likely to be the latter. Exploration is already a major disappointment it doesn't need any more neglect. I took a trip out to Sag A while back and was so underwhelmed by it all I killed myself right there on the spot. Cursing all the time I wasted. For me the exploration aspect wore itself thin so fast that despite my best attitude going into this jump fest I came away with pure distaste for it all (albeit with some sick screenshots). I genuinely don't understand how you explorers tolerate such a boring galaxy. In between Jumps all I would think about is "Gee a Comet or two would really liven this experience up." Maybe even make it tolerable. Nope just same looking star to same looking star rinse and repeat until you hit a nebula then putz around in the SRV until you decide to get moving again.
One long range trip was enough to drive me mad. I know you super explorers are a special breed of crazy. But it must be wearing thin by now even for you lunatics.
Exploration hasn't changed since the game launched. It's odd the DB wants to recreate the galaxy like he's on some insane mission from god and yet puts nothing in it. Surely if anything the game should be about exploring the massive universe that's been made for us. It's incredibly odd that it's been neglected all this time in favour of rubbish like CQC, power play and RNGineers and soon to be MC.
If there is one thing this game could do to inspire people is a good exploration mechanic. Not having even a hint at one would indicate that FD aren't interested in making anything along those lines or we would have seen something by now. Eye-candy is basically what DB wants to put in where as I think most "explorers" actually want to discover stuff and work things out for themselves.
Geysers are nice to look at and I'm sure lava is as well but without something else it's a case of, been there, seen that. Stuff gets boring to look at and even more so if you're out just looking at stuff for no meaning whatsoever other than to just see it.
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Originally Posted by Deathwatch View Post (Source)
The thing is you guys ask for stuff for exploration but don't suggest anything, even if they added comets etc it would get stale etc.
Really? Go read the numerous threads detailing exactly what tools Exploration needs.
Not to mention...We aren't devs . It's not our job to make the game fun and exciting. That's fdevs job.
This. How many hundreds of posts have been written detailing what stuff they could put in but we don't need to write anything down because the DEVS ALREADY DID!
Jeeez doesn't anyone around here know what the DDF is or their whole massive thread on what they would do with exploration? We don't need to write anything at all because FDEV already wrote a huge thread on it but even though they did, the community still came up with a ton of ideas.
FDev have all the ideas in the world, quite literally they just chose to ignore all of them and go for a honk instead - pathetic and on a galactic scale too, quite literally.
